Daylight Saving True or False Quiz

[Haley]

Pretty easy, just post your answers on this topic!! There will be no prize this will be just for fun! The answers will be posted soon!
Rules: No looking up things just use your instinct! Or if you know the answer, awesome!
Have fun!!!

True or False

Test your knowledge about Daylight Savings Times!

True or False:
1. Daylight Savings Time is a change in standard time with the purpose of making better use of daylight and conserving energy.
2. Daylight Savings Time has been used for thousands of years.
3. Benjamin Franklin is called the “Father of Daylight Savings.”
4. France was the first country to use Daylight Savings Time
5. Daylight Savings Time has also been called “fast time”, “War time,” and “Summer Time.”
6. President Woodrow Wilson first introduced daylight Savings Time to the United States in 1918 during the Civil War.
7. GMT stand for Greenwich Mean Time/Coordinated Universal Time.
8. Daylight Savings Time is used in over 70 countries worldwide and affects over a billion people every year.
9. Daylight Savings Time has always start on the second Sunday in March and ended on the first Sunday in November.
10. Daylight Savings Time is used by most of the United States except for Hawaii and most of Arizona.

[Tamara]

I don't know mosf of thse answers, but I'll give it a go.

1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. False
10. True

[Haley]

Good job!!

Anyone else want to give it a go?

[Tamara]

Am I the only one?

[Haley]

I hope not!! Anyone else want to try it out. Remember, this is just for fun!!

[Tamara]

Yeah, I probably did horrible so don't feel like you have to get them all right either. I guessed most of these questions. ;)

[Haley]

:)

[Haley]

I will post the answers at the end of this month so please do some guessing soon!!!!!!

[[deleted user]]

1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. True
10. True

All of Canada except Saskatchewan does daylight savings time.

[Haley]

Cool!! Good job!!

[Haley]

Anyone else?

[Haley]

The answers for this quiz...
Answers to True or False:
1. True
2. True
3. False:
Ben Franklin wrote an essay, An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light, and jokingly said that people should use fewer candles by getting out of bed earlier. Robert Garland was a passionate campaigner for the use of Daylight Savings Time in the United States and is called, “Father of Daylight Savings.”
4. False:
Germany was the first to change their clocks on April 30, 1916, in order to conserve coal during wartime.
5. True
6. False:
President Woodrow Wilson was president during World War I.
7. True
8. True
9. False:
It has been revised many times throughout the years. In 1966, Daylight Savings Time began on the last Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October. In 1986, Daylight Savings Time began on the first Sunday in April.
10. True

[Tamara]

Hehe, I only got 5 right. 50%. I told you I was just guessing. *Sheepish*

[Haley]

:) I did worse!!

[Tamara]

Actually, just counted again and realized I got 6 right. Yay!!!

[Haley]

Yay!!

[Isabella]

;)